Articles by Serge Versille

DragonBox continues its mathematics learning revolution with Dragonbox 12+

May 23, 2013 by Serge Versille

The education revolution is gaining momentum online, with MOOCs and startups like Coursera getting more and more people and universities to join in. Breakthroughs on earlier education are however still very few. French-Norwegian startup We Want To Know is focused on K-12 education, and is revolutionizing the way mathematics can...

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3 French games studios in trouble – are Social & Mobile still keys to success for games studios?

Feb 15, 2013 by Serge Versille

Two social gaming studios publicly announced they were closing these past few weeks in France, Mandala and Qozmo. We often hear from companies having a hard time that the Facebook market has been becoming tougher in recent years, and if several companies in the same space fail in a short...

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JCDecaux bringing real Open Data for Paris bike riders

Feb 6, 2013 by Serge Versille

Paris, like many other French cities, has a network of bicycle stations called Velib, where people with (very cheap) subscriptions can take a bike for free for as long as a half-hour. However, up until now, the data of what stations are full of available bikes, and which have space...

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Twitter silent in the face of French Government's demand for censorship. Good or Bad?

Jan 9, 2013 by Serge Versille

Politicians and civil society have much less of a free speech culture in France than what exists in the US. Recently, there has been a bunch of offensive trending hashtags in France that have been quite widely publicized. France has reacted officially by whining, through the voices of its press...

[Games]

Mandala Games adds real-money mobile gambling through Betable

Nov 15, 2012 by Serge Versille

The two biggest challenges for any web app are user acquisition and user monetization. The game industry is no exception, and with the rise of freemium models, user acquisition is more competitive than ever, and monetization needs a bit more thinking than the traditional retail model. French studio Mandala Games,...

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Hacks and Lulz of the HackDayParis Hackathon on Connected TV

Oct 23, 2012 by Serge Versille

Photo Courtesy of HackDayParis Organizers

TV, quaint and asymetric communication medium, thou shaped the youth of many a hacker who attended the HackDayParis hackaton on Connected TV. Most of the hackers in attendance came from the web, so that would be about 50 peeps, with only two coming from TV as far as I noticed....

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